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Rethinking files

In Unix, everything is a file. This is often viewed as a positive, but it's often a poor abstraction for many things. This discussion goes into some of the issues.

There's a chain of links leading up to this. Not required reading, but interesting for us junkies:

• <https://www.devever.net/~hl/nexuses>
• <https://christine.website/blog/olin-1-why-09-1-2018>
• <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17896307#17897325> (just the exchange between `_wmd` and `xena`)
• <https://www.devever.net/~hl/globalfs>

The sequel explores passing in file systems to commands. I had that in my last prototype of Mu: <http://akkartik.github.io/mu/html/edit/004-programming-environment.mu.html#L242> (`assume-resources`)